{"id":6887,"date":"2012-01-24T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2012-01-24T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:00:19","slug":"the-awards-by-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"The Awards by Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

The awards are out! Seventy-one American Library Association Youth Media awards and twenty-eight Sydney Taylor Book awards by the Association of Jewish Libraries were announced within the past week. Combined with last fall’s National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature, that makes a grand total of 104 awards and honors for children’s books, audiobooks, visual media, and adult books with crossover teen appeal.
\nWe’re celebrating the wonderful winners, and doing that happy\/sad dance you do while appreciating those and shedding a few tears for some of our favorites that didn’t get a nod. With a field as rich in talent as ours, the books that don’t get awards can truly take your breath away. Last year, author Kate Messner wrote a poem<\/a> for children’s book writers and illustrators, a comforting read if you didn’t win (and a lagniappe if you did).
\nSince the full award lists are readily available online (ALA Youth Media Awards here<\/a> and AJL Sydney Taylor Book Awards here<\/a> and the National Book Awards for YPL here<\/a>, I like to present the results for my colleagues in the bookselling and publishing worlds a little differently.
\nLast year, I looked at the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz awards by gender <\/a>\u2014 and I suspect folks will be discussing that topic some more, given this year’s numbers (nine men, three women for those three awards, which includes a clean male sweep for the Caldecotts), and also at the 2011 awards by publisher<\/a>. I’m repeating the latter breakdown for this year’s awards, because I like to take a look at these things and think it will interest you folks, too.
\nThere are still children’s book awards yet to be announced this year, including the Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, among others. We’ll keep you posted on those, as well.
\nBefore we get to the publisher breakdown, here’s a shout out to a few children’s book creators whose work received multiple awards:<\/p>\n